How One Founder Is Shaping Hospitality in Cap-Haïtien
Featured Founders · DaHo Creative Hub
Create a moment. Pass on a craft. Give your skills a purpose that reaches beyond your own business.
Mendy Laurence Manigat · Founder and CEO, Menley’S Catering & Event Planning
Co-founder and COO, Eritaj Enterprises
Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
You can look at an entrepreneurial journey and see only a list of businesses created. Or pause at a more useful question: what could you build from what you already know how to do?
In Cap-Haïtien, Mendy Laurence Manigat connects gastronomy, events, and the sharing of skills. As founder and CEO of Menley’S Catering & Event Planning, she works at the intersection of event design and fusion cuisine.
Through Virtuose Académie, she also shares her expertise and trains a new generation of professionals in cooking, hospitality, and entrepreneurship.
Her story is not an invitation to take on more projects simply to do more. It opens another possibility: recognize a skill, give it structure, and explore how it could also serve others.
Start with what you can contribute
At Menley’S, the visual design of an event meets the culinary experience. The work gives tangible form to a moment others will share: a setting, a table, a welcome.
Behind that experience is a craft. Techniques to master, choices to make, and preparation to organize. It is a concrete starting point for understanding her work, beyond the label of business owner.
For someone considering entrepreneurship, the question can begin there: which skill could meet a specific need? Not necessarily a spectacular idea, but something you can learn to do better and offer with care.
Mendy is also an actor. Her career includes an artistic practice alongside her entrepreneurial responsibilities.
Give your ambition a structure
Mendy is also co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Eritaj Enterprises. She describes a role combining strategic management, operational workflow optimization, and organizational growth.
The project she wants to highlight is the creation of the Eritaj holding company with her associate, Dr Mozart. It is presented here as a project in development, not an already completed achievement.
This operational dimension points to a less visible reality of entrepreneurship: ambition needs organization. Clarifying responsibilities, coordinating efforts, and setting priorities matter as much as the energy of getting started.
For the reader, achieving more does not have to mean adding more working hours. It can begin by giving one project a stronger structure before trying to launch another.
Share your skills to extend your contribution
Through Virtuose Académie, Mendy gives her experience another purpose: training. The fields described in her biography bring together cooking, hospitality, and entrepreneurship.
Practicing a craft and teaching it meet different needs. A service puts expertise to work for a client. Training aims to help someone else develop their skills.
You do not need to follow the same path to find a possibility in it. Explaining a method to a colleague, guiding a beginner, or sharing a useful practice can be a first step. Passing on knowledge can start small.
You do not have to carry everything alone
In her application, Mendy does not speak only about her own abilities. She names the people she builds with:
“With my associates, my partners, and my team, we identify problems and bring lasting solutions to them.”
She expresses an intention to work collectively: identifying problems and seeking lasting answers together. This feature does not measure the results of that approach, but highlights the place she gives to others.
That perspective can ease a heavy expectation: needing to know everything before you begin. A next step might also mean recognizing what is missing and seeking a complementary skill, a partner, or suitable support.
Her work extends into consulting and human resources through AGRECPHA, alongside involvement with CAPADES, WENCHAM, PROSPER, and the Kijani Foundation. A joint project lead for the cultural initiative “Femmes d’Haïti à travers les ans,” she also describes mentoring, community initiatives, and participation in political life.
The thread to take away is not the number of these commitments. It is the question they invite: where could your skills meet a need and the efforts of other people?
Meet Mendy
Mendy Laurence Manigat
Founder and CEO · Menley’S Catering & Event Planning
Co-founder and COO · Eritaj Enterprises
Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
A note from DaHo
Mendy, your story invites us to look differently at what we already know.
What I appreciate in your introduction is the connection between practicing a craft, organizing the work, and passing on knowledge. You give us something to consider about what we build, but also about the people our experience could serve.
To readers, I would offer this: do not try to replicate all of Mendy’s activities. Recognize what you can already contribute, choose a concrete need, and give your next step a structure. Then ask who you could work with and who you could teach.
Thank you, Mendy, for sharing your perspective from Cap-Haïtien. Welcome to Featured Founders.
Start with what you can contribute. Build with others. Share what can help them move forward.
Danel Hommeus (DaHo)
Founder, DaHo Creative Hub · MSC
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